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Kathleen Rice: “I think there was wide-spread agreement across the aisle post-9/11 that we wanted the Federal Government to be…”

On the recordNovember 16, 2015
I think there was wide-spread agreement across the aisle post-9/11 that we wanted the Federal Government to be responsible for screening at our airports given the tragedies of 9/11.
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Kathleen Rice
Democratic · New York

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Rice reflects on bipartisan support for federal airport screening after 9/11.

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